EZ Game
Nice to be on the good side of variance. Played 2 sessions on Friday and Saturday (no baseball games = poker time) and I realized how much money I am missing by not playing on the weekends. Jose Canseco just chillin at foxwoods dropping millions, games are so good on the weekends.
Since I always post hands where I make sick hero calls or bluffs or whatever here is a hand I grossly misplayed that bothered me to the point of leaving (at 1am and game starting to die a bit, + me getting tired + tilt from this BS hand = time to leave)
Villian is an older female regular probably in her 50s who is your typical casino poker woman. The 50 year old lady at your casino that talks too much, this is her.
We are like 1400 effective at 2/5.
Fish limps, she limps, I raise CO to 30. with A
J
Fish folds and dealer pushes me the pot, then he notices lady didnt fold, I give the pot back and she reraises to 80.
I elect to call preflop.
1. Most importantly I have position.
2. She views me as an aggro internetty type and want to trap me.
Flop comes 8
9x 10
(160)
She bets 105.
Hmm. So she has an overpair here like 100% of the time, but the fact that it was a bit later into my session made me think that maybe she would fire once with AK and give up.
Oftentimes these players overplay JJ and AK in this way because they are scared of the difficulty of the postflop playability of these hands. But anything past a cbet is always, always AA/KK.
Always.
Turn is an offsuit 10.
She checks to me.
Given my image, stack sizes and the fact I have a ton of outs I don't want to value own myself.
The thing that people don't realize in these situations is that betting with 30%ish equity hands only becomes a good play if there is fold equity. If you are betting this hand against a station that will never fold, you are in essence, doing their valuebetting for them.
My logic here is that, if she has AK, I can check this back, eval river and see if I can bluff her off it. If she has AA/KK/QQ/JJ, she is neverrrrrrrrrr folding. Amateur players of this nature get engaged to overpairs and don't let go, no matter what.
River is the 6
8
9x10
10
6
Hmm.
Interesting.
Here is where I lit money on fire-
This is a pretty bad card for her range, she checks to me. To bet or not to bet? Ace Jack high is not winning this pot at showdown.
the pot is over 400$ now. What hands does she fold? AK, thats about it. All the other combos of overpairs are going to call here. I did not think like this in-game, this is my post-hand analysis.
I bet 175$.
This lady doesn't know how much is in the pot because shes clueless and limp reraised me with aces.
I can accomplish the same thing with a 120$ bet (which is still incorrect imo, check and giveup is the best play by far, we saw all 5 and bricked out, give up).
Classic example of a fish playing their hand horrendously, but I took a marginally +ev spot for me and made it clearly -ev with my poor postflop play.
Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Aside from that hand I described I thought I played good in my 2 days at Foxwoods. Sucks that I drove up Friday, drove back Friday night, drove up Saturday morning, then drove back Saturday night.
Oh yeah and I woke up sunday morning and went and coached for 6 hours. Dedication.
That stack is built from my AA>KK aipf for like a 800$ pot, and I owned some asian guy with KQ on Q5222. That accounted for like 800$ in profit, don't remember any other big ones.
Raised KQ in the BB after like 6 limpers and he called, I cbet flop checked turn and bombed river. He put me on AK ldo. I was betting river even if it didn't improve me, I just think he folds to my double barrel so checking back induces light river calls from him.
Will maybe go back tommorow as I'm off from baseball but I'm up pretty late and hate the drive now. I need to make friends at Foxwoods that I can split rooms with.
gg
Closing in on 20k profit too. At 19.3 now.